Sunday, September 19, 2010

Daily Snippet- Eternal Earthbound Pets

Christians who are waiting patiently for the rapture can now rest assured that their loved pets will be cared for long after their superior and saved souls are gone.

Atheists have promised it.

A group of atheists have decided to make the ultimate business proposition. Entrust the only people that you are SURE will be left behind with the care of your soulless pets after the rapture.
They have called it Eternal Earth Bound Pets.

Is this a scam?

OF COURSE it is. They have no intention of actually having to render services, and every intention of taking the money.

However, they are very open about this fact from the outset. They state very clearly that they are atheists, and as such do not believe in the rapture, but still Christians send money.

Is it deception?

Clearly not.

It IS however a fool and his money, and the cautionary tale about how they are parted.

Moral? Maybe not

Who could ever claim that taking advantage of delusional people is moral.

3 comments:

In this particular situation. The Eternal Earth Bound Pets organization is very open and up front about their view on the situation. Even if management "knows" that the rapture will never take place as long as they build the infrastructure to execute their promise if indeed the rapture does takes place they are acting in good-faith. The organization is not actively creating the belief in the rapture so I find no conflict of interest or less than honorable behavior.

I completely agree! They are not doing anything wrong. It is still ascam. But as you say (and as I said in the blog) they know that itwon't happen. So they are taking their money based on the informationthat they have available to them.

What is funny is that they are completely open about this from the getgo! They state that they don't believe, they state that they figurethat they will never have to do it, they state that they figure thatthey are just taking a suckers money.

The fact remains that they are taking advantage of a group that won'tcare about those things.

Kind of like kicking a sickly and lonely dog. It won't care as long asyou are paying attention to it. Not entirely ethical, but certainly hilarious. I wish that I was a partof it.

Gentlemen,Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, and underdstanding of my offering.

I am happy to report we just expanded into two more states (Alabama and Ohio)and have passed the 225 client mark.

Obvioudsly we don't "know" the Rapture isn't real/isn't going to happen. But from a probability perspective, we estimate the likelihood of having to fulfill our contracts at approximately 1 in 10 trillion. If it were any more likely, we'd charge considerably more than the $0.90 a month our fee comes to.

It is time for us as an evolving species, as a thinking species and in fact as a moral species to grow and move past the harmful myths of the past.
Time to throw off the shackles of ideas belonging to men from thousands of years ago, and enter into an age of reason and truth unfettered.
Time to enter into an age of equality that religion refuses to afford us.
Time to rid ourselves of the moral obligation to police our neighbours and suppress free thought.
There are thousands of gods NOT to believe in, it is time we added one more.
Remember "Belief without reason is merely superstition."
Think;
Observe;
Critique;
Examine:
and be free.